Yulla - Hardcover

Lipchitz, Yulla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0929793064 ISBN 13: 9780929793061

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1999

Synopsis

Yulla was born in 1911 in Berlin, Germany and raised in an Orthodox Jewish family. Her developing personality was a result of an intermingling of many diverse spiritual, emotional, cultural and other environmental forces. While secretly attending sculpture classes, she also pursued her interests in science and mathematics, which intensified when she met Albert Einstein.
In 1938, escaping the Nazis with her family, Yulla came to the United States and settled in Cincinnati with the aid of her husband's cousin, Libby Holman. In 1942, separated from her husband, she came to New York City where several years later, she met and married the sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz. In later years Yulla and Lipchitz lived and maintained homes in both Italy and America. Through Lipchitz, Yulla met Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Marino Marini and their contemporaries.
After Lipchitz' death in 1973, Yulla became more involved in her own creative work. Sculpture was the first medium of Yulla's reentry into the creative arts. By the late seventies she had begun to photograph, beginning with Polaroids. Through the lens of the camera, her artist's eyes saw a bright new unexplored world - a world of divergent images.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0929793064
• ISBN 13: 9780929793061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 63